Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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No is a complete sentence.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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